Development of an Automated University Examination Timetabling System

Abstract

Timetabling is one of the most important administrative activities that require huge attention of the school authorities in all educational institutions. Part of which has to do with examinations. Examination timetabling is sometimes a serious challenge in most universities. The objective of this work is to design and implement a web-based automated platform for university examination timetabling. The system discussed in this paper was developed using Macromedia Dreamweaver for creating the websites while MySQL serves as the database. The programming languages used consists of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), Javascript, CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and SQL (Structured Query Language). PHP is a scripting language that is embedded in HTML. PHP scripting code is used to connect web pages to MySQL databases to create dynamic web sites. The system was able to successfully schedule the university examination timetable within a few seconds without clashes of invigilators and examination venues. If the system is fully implemented and adopted, it will go a long way to correct the problems encountered during the manual method of examination timetabling in most universities